The Duke's Wager Quotes

“Since there is so much that you know about me, can you tell me something about yourself? Some true thing? She asked, watching him, realizing that she knew nothing of the actual man that hid beneath the blandly smiling, smooth exterior that he presented.

Some true thing? He laughed. Oh my dear, there is no true thing about me at all.”
― Edith Layton, The Duke's Wager

“I am not a good man. I am at the present, as a matter of record, rejoicing in one of the most evil reputations in all of England. But don’t pity me, Regina, for I swear it is well deserved. But I am very wealthy, and I am a duke, a duke of all things. And you are a commoner. Moreover, much to my joy, you are a commoner with no connections at all. No resources. No protector. You are my natural meat. My natural prey. I want you.”
― Edith Layton, The Duke's Wager

“Can you not speak straight? Must everything be couched in that sinister poetry you affect?

He seemed, for one second, taken aback, and then he let out a genuine laugh, oddly pure in contrast to his hoarse voice. His eyes lit up to the shade of a summer’s day.”
― Edith Layton, The Duke's Wager

“You speak almost as well as a man. It will be a novelty to make love to a woman who seems to have a man’s mind.”
― Edith Layton, The Duke's Wager